Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , maintaining professional standards has arguably never been more important . |
| 2 | Indeed , working-class assent to policing has arguably always been hesitant and brittle ( Cohen , 1979 ; Brogden , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | Indeed the apparent conflict between the two has rarely even been noticed . |
| 4 | The definition of a second has since officially been the time it takes a cesium atom to make 9,192,631,770 vibrations . |
| 5 | Small-scale hydroelectric power , which has mostly already been exploited in Sweden , and biomass are both cheaper and quicker to implement than fossil fuels in India . |
| 6 | The impact of the Thatcher government 's new thinking has most obviously been felt in the privatization programme for the state-owned and state-provided services . |
| 7 | The prevalence of H pylori in gastric ulcer disease varies more widely , but has most consistently been found to be around 70% . |
| 8 | National income , or its rate of growth , has most often been used in the West to indicate success . |
| 9 | This viewpoint has most usually been associated with Marxist sociologists who have questioned the assumption that the working class is a rapidly declining section of the population in capitalist societies . |
| 10 | This decision , and its reasoning , is still being relied on in the growing number of tax-diversion cases that are currently coming before the inferior courts in England and Scotland , and it has most recently been affirmed as decisive by the High Court once more , in Boulton v. |
| 11 | It builds in a cumulative temporal structure to the index , in that the hearer must continually update the information in his previous discourse component , to take account of what has most recently been added . |
| 12 | Mr Kirkpatrick has most recently been with Mercury Books as marketing director , from where , it is thought , he was headhunted for the Berlitz job . |
| 13 | Once this limit is reached , or the user wants to force the user to whom it has most recently been passed to accept the SPR , option 3.8.0 — Force User to Accept SPR must be used by a user with SPR SSR Controller privilege . |
| 14 | Our work so far has obviously only been of a preliminary nature , but even so it is clear that there are many strands in the concept of participation and public involvement in decision-making related to novel energy systems . |
| 15 | ‘ This has obviously now been rectified but it is symptomatic of Labour 's reluctance to be drawn on the issue … |
| 16 | This view was reflected by one observer in Rabat , who said : ‘ He ( King Hassan ) has so clearly been playing for time . |
| 17 | The Utopia that has eluded humankind for so long , and which has so frequently been proffered as a possible gift from ancient ‘ gods ’ , has always been attainable , it became so when that first ‘ good ’ event in the far-off beginning took place . |
| 18 | But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong . |
| 19 | Giving judgment in a case that has so far been heard in camera , Mr Justice Hoffmann ruled that Mr William Goodwin , a journalist working for The Engineer , must hand over his notes of a telephone conversation with his source . |
| 20 | The self-governing dynamo at Jimmy 's has so far been strongly medical . |
| 21 | There is no reason to suppose that the Russians are seeking trouble and the same has so far been true of the East Germans . |
| 22 | It is a revolution more obviously compared with the French than with any other revolution because of its stages of progression , even though it has so far been peaceful despite the anger . |
| 23 | So , while it can seem churlish to knock the BCS , what has so far been lacking is someone to harness these scattered initiatives and local enthusiasms into a national force . |
| 24 | But the new production company has so far been upstaged by his other pet project the opening of his restaurant , the Tribeca Bar & Grill |
| 25 | Not all of this man 's behaviour has yet been revealed , of course , but I can assure you that there is one incident to come which in itself justifies almost any degree of the pain that has so far been applied to his brain and his skin and his bones . |
| 26 | It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’ |
| 27 | Some of Fleet Street 's finest wind-up merchants have been put on the case , but the search for the Kinnock temper has so far been fruitless . |
| 28 | Shares rose sharply at the beginning of the year in anticipation of an economic rebound , but the recovery has so far been very sluggish . |
| 29 | 12.01 am , Richmond and Barnes : For the Liberal Democrats the story in Richmond and Barnes has so far been ‘ so near but yet so far ’ . |
| 30 | About £4m has so far been paid out to about 964 investors during 1991–92 for the default of 35 companies . |